{ "#" : "Say what you like about Ben Affleck as an actor - I certainly have and none of it was kind - but as a director, he shows considerable promise. For his feature debut, Affleck follows another performer-turned-helmer, Clint Eastwood (with Mysti

{ "#" : "After nearly 20 years and countless false dawns, everyone’s favourite archaeologist adventurer dusts himself down for one more globetrotting escapade, as - one of the most eagerly awaited sequels in cinema history - finally arrives." , "b" :

{ "#" : "The summer blockbuster season kicks off with Jon Favreau’s , a gutsy adaptation of the Marvel comic superhero that offers a story typical of a first instalment in a franchise." , "b" : "Iron Man"}

{ "#" : "Mike Leigh, the chronicler of British kitchen-sink misery in films such as Vera Drake and Secrets & Lies, makes a graceful about-face with , the endearing and optimistic tale of a young primary school teacher learning how to drive." , "b" :

{ "#" : "Austrian provocateur Michael Haneke’s scene-for-scene, line-for-line English language remake of his 1997 German film is a curiously deadening exploration of what happens to a family when their holiday home is invaded by a couple of psychopat

{ "#" : "Director Mike Newell deserves a tip of the hat for bringing Gabriel García Márquez’s long-thought unfilmable novel to the screen, but given the quivering mess that results, perhaps the book was best categorised as being too deep for the chea

{ "#" : "Roland Emmerich goes from the day after tomorrow to thousands of years into the past for his latest self-proclaimed blockbuster , a sublimely ridiculous romp through prehistory, artificially sweetened by a menagerie of digital beasts." , "b"